Infighting Is Funny

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump and his allied super PAC are up with new TV ads Wednesday morning that paint Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as disloyal, criticizing him for considering a presidential bid against his former ally. Trump’s new spot is his presidential campaign’s first television ad. The spot quotes DeSantis saying: “I’d like to thank our …

The Daily Beast reports: Nikki Haley gave a shameless pitch on Fox News to the Walt Disney Co., suggesting a relocation to her native South Carolina after DeSantis’ repeated attacks on the company. Soon after, a super PAC supporting DeSantis’ as-yet-unannounced bid for the White House shot back at Haley with an edited video of Disney “officials” voicing support for …

“You know, as governor I took care a double-digit unemployment state and I turned it into an economic powerhouse. Businesses were my partners, because if you take care of your businesses, you take care of your economy, your economy takes care of the people and everyone wins. “And so that’s the way we dealt with it. South Carolina was a …

Rolling Stone reports: Fox News executives have in their possession a dossier of alleged dirt on Tucker Carlson should he attack the network in the wake of his departure, eight sources at and close to the network tell Rolling Stone. When Fox announced Carlson’s departure on Monday, the network presented the separation as amiable. But according to one former on-air …

“I don’t know how you feel about Fox News, but I’ll go in on what I think. What they’ve done is they caved to the woke mob. They absolutely caved to the woke mob because all these lawsuits, they have the Dominion lawsuit, they have all these other lawsuits coming in. “So to save democracy, they believe in canceling people …

“You know, I enjoyed supporting him when he was president. We worked really hard for his reelection in Florida, and I always had a good relationship with him. And then, once the midterm election happened, he started taking shots at me! I didn’t really do anything to do it except do a good job. But that’s fine. I mean, Sean, …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis may have campaigned for Lee Zeldin last year, but reciprocation is not likely if the Governor runs for President. The former New York gubernatorial candidate waited until DeSantis was in Japan Monday to endorse Donald Trump in 2024. In Long Island last October, DeSantis depicted Zeldin as made in his mold. He related what …

Mediaite reports: The Trump campaign on Friday made news publishing a list, shared by email and on social media, to include Trump’s Truth Social account, under the header “The Real Ron DeSantis Playbook” listing the things Florida is “worst” at under DeSantis. It began with a quote from spox Steven Cheung, who claimed, “the real DeSantis record is one of …

Florida Politics reports: Donald Trump will address Lee County Republicans Friday night, and a new campaign email suggests Ron DeSantis will be top of mind. “The Real Ron DeSantis Playbook” depicts the “complete and total delinquency and destruction” that allegedly is Florida under the current Governor’s watch. “The real DeSantis record is one of misery and despair. He has left …

USA Today reports: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie continued testing the waters for a long-shot presidential bid in New Hampshire, the primary state where he finished virtually last in 2016 and soon prompted his exit from the presidential field. Christie sought to set himself apart from the rest of the 2024 Republican field, pointing out by name how his …

“Actually if you look at the numbers, he didn’t do a great job. If you take a look at the numbers he’s very high on crime. Very high, right at the top. Almost at the top. I think he gets good publicity, although now people are starting cause I’m putting out the COVID numbers, he didn’t do well on COVID. …

NBC News reports: Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America issued a scathing response to a statement the Trump campaign made to The Washington Post when asked whether Trump supported the six-week abortion ban that a likely 2024 opponent, Gov. Ron DeSantis, signed into law in Florida. “President Donald J. Trump believes that the Supreme Court, led by the three justices which …

“I didn’t vote for Donald Trump. I actually voted for Biden. Not saying I’m a huge fan of Biden because I would think that would probably be inaccurate. But, you know, we have difficult choices to make in these presidential elections. It’s not, I would prefer, frankly, that we put someone in, just a normal person as president. A normal …

Posted today to Hair Furor’s Truth Social account: DeSanctus is being absolutely destroyed by Disney. His original P.R. plan fizzled, so now he’s going back with a new one in order to save face. Disney’s next move will be the announcement that no more money will be invested in Florida because of the Governor – In fact, they could even …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is calling on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to look into far-right MAGA supporter Ali Alexander for allegedly propositioning underage boys he met in Nick Fuentes‘ White supremacist organization. Twitter users posted photos of Greene smiling alongside Nick Fuentes and Ali Alexander. Alexander, who helped organize the Jan. 6 insurrection, admitted to sending …

Florida Politics reports: Call it a case of “shots fired,” at long last. After months of Donald Trump blasting Ron DeSantis on myriad issues, a Super PAC supportive of the Florida Governor is returning fire, spotlighting the former President’s Democratic affinities on the issue of guns. Timing is everything, of course, and this NEVER BACK DOWN PAC spot was shot …

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports: While the heavily Democratic city of Fort Lauderdale was dealing with historic flooding Thursday morning, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was having breakfast with members of the Summit County, Ohio, Republican Party. Later that night, he was scheduled as keynote speaker at the Butler County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner, but he got home in …

Mediaite reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence received a less-than-stellar welcome as he addressed the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on Friday and was met with loud booing from the crowd. Pence replied with a good-natured, “I love you too,” before diving into his remarks. 2024 GOP presidential candidates including Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, and Vivek Ramaswamy are set to …

Real Clear Politics reports: Everyone in the audience here laughed when Nikki Haley took credit for bringing good weather with her on an unseasonably warm Iowa evening, and then as the sun started to set in the watercolor-painted sky, she turned their attention to everything wrong about America right now. In her telling, this meant a nation embarrassed abroad, a …

The Daily Beast reports: “Ron DeSantis loves sticking his fingers where they don’t belong,” the ad, which aired during Fox & Friends on Friday morning, says as a man in a suit sits down to eat pudding with three of his fingers. “And we’re not just talking about pudding. DeSantis has his dirty fingers all over senior entitlements. Like cutting …